Apparently, Rich Man understood his master's words and lowered his hairy little head with a low moan.
Seeing how pitiful it looked, Qingyan was both amused and a little distressed, so she reached out and hugged it.
Um! The body is soft and furry, so easy to move!
And the fur on its body is much longer than before. After all, it was a little leopard before and its fur was shorter. Now it has half the shape of a tiger.
The tiger's hair itself is longer than the leopard's hair. Although the appearance is very strange, it does not affect the feel of the ball.
Qingyan moved it several times to get enough of it, and then looked at Chou Chou, "Can it change back to its previous appearance? Or it can be made into something else, as long as it's more normal." "
Chou Chou also felt a little funny when he saw it, nodded and said: "Okay, it has just absorbed the blood essence now, and the blood of the monster has just awakened, I will guide it to go through the steps of transformation again.
But we can't do it outside. The two of us have to get back to our own space, so that if there is any accident and the noise is too loud, we will be discovered by others. "
Qingyan nodded, "How long will it take?"
Chou Chou: "I guess it will only take an hour or two."
Qingyan: "Okay, I'll tidy up and make breakfast. It should be almost time."
Chou Chou nodded and returned to the space with the money.
Qingyan thought for a while and then sent a message to Chou Chou: "Let it become normal. It is best to turn it into a kitten or puppy, so that it will not be so conspicuous outside."
Chou Chou replied, "I know." Then there was no sound. He must have been busy guiding Rich.
Qingyan was thinking about what she had not brought with her outside. She checked the carriage again and looked at the heavy wooden wheels. She thought that if she met the rubber tree in the south, she could try to refine the rubber and give it to the wheels. Cover with a layer of shock absorption.
I don’t know if it would be okay if the wheel could be covered with something else? But after thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of any material that could replace rubber.
You can't wrap it with a layer of cotton, or it will be crushed in a short time.
After feeding Big Bear some water and food, he went into the kitchen to make breakfast. He put millet into the pot and threw a few jujubes in to prepare a pot of red jujube and millet porridge.
Tie the remaining millet bags and put them away in the space after you finish the meal and wash the pots and pans.
After that, I had to put something outside. I couldn’t have nothing outside. I thought about it and tied the smaller frame I bought before with a thin hemp rope to the front of the carriage and fixed it to the shed. It doesn't wobble back and forth when walking.
Then I can put some small things in it. I think I will let Chouchou take out a fifty-by-sixty-inch small table that was given to me in the carpenter's shop later, and put it in the car where I can put things. .
This small table is quite exquisite. It is made from scraps of leftover furniture. It is very pretty. It is good to put on the kang to drink water or something. It has been used as a kang table these days.
The past ten days have passed, and the weather has become colder again, but it has barely snowed yet.
So in the next two days, she seldom hung out outside and spent all her time on the kang. The kang was burned with charcoal instead of using firewood.
This one lasted a long time and didn't produce so much smoke, so she didn't even have to leave the house. She could just add charcoal to the kang hole inside the house.
After she finished cooking the millet and red date porridge, she mixed it with some pickles. Porridge and soup were most comfortable when the weather was cold.
After she fried a few more poached eggs, she sent a message to Chou Chou to see if they were done.
The time now is nine o'clock in the morning. Chou Chou and the others have been in the space for more than an hour, so they should be almost there.
As soon as she finished her words, Chou Chou came out. Its current size was that of an adult. Because she had to pack up and leave today, this body shape was more convenient for working.
Qingyan didn't see the little leopard, so she asked it, "Where is the money? Why didn't you come out?"
"In the back." After saying that, Chou Chou saw a fluffy yellow dumpling in his arms.
Qingyan raised her eyebrows at it, took Mao Duanzi from its arms, and found that Rich Money had turned into an orange cat.
That's right, it's the orange cat. She looks very familiar. Isn't this a smaller version of grandma's big orange!
The only difference is that the eyes are slightly smaller, and it feels like a cat with single eyelids, which is very similar to the leopard eyes it had before.
Then I discovered that there was a faint king character on its forehead. This should be a combination of the appearance of a tiger and a leopard.
Fortunately, the word "王" is relatively shallow and not very clear. You can't see it at all unless you look carefully.
He held it in his arms and rubbed it. Well, the hair was still as soft as before, and the color became much better.
Then she touched its back to see if the two small fleshy wings were blocked by long hair, and found that they were flat and had nothing on them.
She curiously asked Chou Chou: "Can it change at will according to its own thoughts?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "No, it can only be done when the monster transforms for the first time. It didn't change well before, so it just became messy according to its own ideas, so I guided it towards the one I saw before. The orange cat’s direction changes.”
This makes sense, the orange cat Chou Chou mentioned is the one raised by his grandparents.
It was originally to catch mice, but mice often ran in and destroyed everything in the courtyard. It happened that a female cat raised by a family in the alley gave birth to kittens, so grandma brought one back.
It turned out that the cat never caught mice, and was picky about food and wouldn't eat anything bad. It was very annoying, but because it was so chubby and cute, it was also loved by grandparents.
Chou Chou has also seen the cat. It’s not that Chou Chou went outside and saw it with her grandparents, but her mother was afraid that the cat would run away foolishly and wanted to improve its IQ, so she brought it back to the space to feed it. A return to spiritual spring water.
I originally thought that after drinking the spiritual spring water, the cat would become smarter and more obedient, and would not run around eating, especially because I was afraid that it would eat the corpses of mice that had eaten rat poison.
Because it doesn't catch mice, we had to drug it and put mouse traps in the house.
The result is great, this guy's skills are all about acting coquettishly and cutely, and he acts coquettishly and cutely with everyone he sees. This makes the old men, old ladies and children in the alley like him, and people will fall in love with him in every house he visits. Hey, so I got fatter, and now I weigh about twenty pounds.
Nowadays, money comes from its image. Even the chubby body shape is the same, that is, the whole is a smaller version of Da Ju. Yes, that cat is called Da Ju.
He took the little leopard version of the orange cat into the kitchen and put it on the floor. He said to Chou Chou, "Let's eat. By the way, what does the little leopard want to eat? Or the minced meat from before?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "It can eat with us now. We can feed it whatever we want. It is a monster now, so it doesn't have to eat raw meat."
Qingyan was very happy to serve a bowl of red dates and millet porridge for You Qian. Then she asked Chou Chou to take out the mutton stewed yesterday, tear it into small pieces, put it in a big bowl, and handed it to You Qian.
Richie liked it very much, and he ate all the food, and his appetite was much greater than before.
Before, it could only eat half a bowl of minced meat and drink a little milk. Now it not only eats a large bowl, but also drinks a bowl of water.
After breakfast, Qingyan washed all the pots and pans, took the iron pot off the stove, and then brushed away all the black dust under the pot, otherwise it would be dirty in the space. s things.
The newly built cabinets have also been installed in the space. After all, I don’t know when Yin Keqin discovered the deed of this yard, whether he can find it, or whether he will come after he finds it, so there is no need to leave things in the house. It may be cheaper by then. Who?
Then he asked Chou Chou to take out a large basket and tie it to the back of the carriage as before. There were several pottery bowls and a small pot in it.
There is a lid on this basket, and Qingyan sewed a layer of oilcloth on top of the lid to protect it from rain and snow.
He hitched the carriage to the bear and locked the door before leaving the yard.
Originally I just wanted to lock the courtyard door. After I met the thief, I felt that just locking the courtyard door seemed useless. If someone climbed over the wall and lived in it like the thief, no one outside would know, so I might as well just lock the courtyard door. It's also locked inside, and it's just a copper lock, which isn't worth much.
Then he took another look at the yard, and thought about it, asking Chouchou to fetch a stone slab and cover the well to prevent dirt from falling in.
Then he came out and locked the courtyard door, and then asked Chou Chou to put the key and the house deed at Yin Keqin's house. He didn't leave anything for him. He didn't need to tell the other party that he gave it to him. The house deed said It's his name. If he's curious, he will definitely come over and take a look. If he can't find it, he can only leave it to fate.
This time they don't need to go out through the west gate, but through the east gate. They want to go southeast.
In fact, it is closest to go along the city wall from the side. This way is directly to the east gate. The problem is that the row of yards on this side takes up some of the outside, so the road becomes very narrow and there is no way to use a carriage.
She had no choice but to drive the carriage back and find a wider road to go to the middle street.
Driving west, you pass by two alleys, turn right at the third alley, go all the way to the street that separates Nancheng and Beicheng, then turn right, and pass by two more alleys to reach the East City Gate.
This east-west street was full of shops. Qingyan looked at it while walking, and bought a batch of sesame cakes from a sesame cake shop on the far side.
She tasted it before buying it. It was better than the ones she bought before, so she rounded the sesame cakes that the boss had just made.
If the other party hadn't planned to close down after selling out and stop making more, she would have wanted to buy some more. Anyway, she could store them in the space and eat them on the road.
Now there are several large baskets of sesame cakes in the space, all of which were bought before. There are several shops selling sesame cakes in the county. She has tasted them all, and this one is the most delicious, crispy and fragrant, and there are also... With a little salt and pepper, it tastes a bit salty, much like the naan of later generations.
She thought they were all the same before and never bought from this store. Now she feels she missed a lot.
When I walked to the east gate, I didn't leave the city immediately because I happened to encounter a group of people entering the city.
They, the ordinary people who were coming in and out, stayed aside and waited for the other party to pass.
Fortunately, the queue this time was not long, only a few hundred people. Unlike the thousands before, it took a long time just to walk.
These people should also be passing through Yunling County on their way to the border. These people are all wearing armor. Except for the general riding on the horse in the front who is wearing protective armor made of leather and metal, the people behind are all wearing rattan. of.
The rattan looked very strong, but it could resist some damage.
While the team was passing by, Qingyan sent a message to Chou Chou, "Have you looked at the border side today? How is it over there? Are there any new changes?"
Chou Chou replied: "It's still the same as before. Occasionally, small groups of troops come to harass us, either to rob the cattle, sheep and food in the village over there, or to wander far away from the military camp and then leave.
However, there was no massacre of the village. Even if they were robbing things, the villagers did not resist desperately.
Qingyan: "I guess I just want to let these villagers continue to develop. At least they will have something to rob. If the village is massacred, those people will be dead. No one will give them cattle, sheep and food. They will not be able to rob them." The place is taken."
Chou Chou also thinks this is what he means. If he is not a truly cruel person, or if he has any hatred, massacring villages and cities is actually the most unwise thing to do.
And if the village is massacred as soon as a war breaks out, then there will probably be no living people on this border. Even if there are, they will have to move away immediately. Who will wait there to die?
After the people and horses finished walking, the team leaving the city now lined up again.
Fortunately, there weren't many people leaving the city. They had to queue up to go out for inspection. As for what to check, Qingyan wasn't sure.
If you go southeast here, you are going inland. You should be afraid that some spies will sneak in.
The other party didn't check her household registration, but just looked at her appearance and then checked to see if there was anyone hiding in the carriage, and then let her go.
She was sitting in the front driving the car, and there was only money lying in it. Although a cat was obvious, it was not so strange.
Qingyan drove the carriage out of the county town and walked along the road. The villages here were obviously much denser than those after leaving the west gate.
After walking for several kilometers, there are villages on the roadside, and they are one after another. Unlike before, there is a large wasteland in the middle, and it takes a long time to walk before there is another village.
Here it is not that the fields are next to the roadside, but that the house is on the roadside and the fields are behind the house.
There are occasionally small shops on the roadside, and the things you buy are all kinds of, mostly local gadgets and food.
Basically, there is a tea shed or tea shop every other section for guests to rest along the way.
This prosperous scene ended only after crossing a stone bridge.
This is a tributary of the large east-west river, which branches here and flows to the north.
(End of chapter)
